Re: Proposal: Disable autoload of compat_xyz modules

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20170910185148.GA7149%antioche.eu.org@localhost>,
Manuel Bouyer  <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 08:46:52PM +0200, Maxime Villard wrote:
>> Le 10/09/2017 à 19:59, Manuel Bouyer a écrit :
>> > There's something I don't understand in this thread: what is the point
>> > of having the code in kernel if you still have to use modload to make it
>> > availble ? Why not comment it out in kernel and have users modload it
>> > if they want to ?
>> 
>> said earlier, but on a different list, see
>> 
>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes-d/2017/08/04/msg009366.html
>
>OK. So you want this because (some?) compat modules can't be dynamically
>loaded. This problem should be fixed, instead of of worked around in
>such a ugly way.

Can't we add a sysctl that controls the behavior and have autoload
of the compat modules off by default?

christos